4G LTE was the point of no return. It was supposed to mean “it’s not 4G yet but we have an upgrade plan to get there”, but when they finally did, marketing found out that to the average person, going from 4G LTE to 4G sounded like a downgrade, so they rebranded it to 5G.
This shit started with 3g. None of the carriers were even close to supporting 3g, which was designed to support 100mbps.
Tmo and vzw had a modest improvement from 2g even though it was still slow as shit but AT&T simple did nothing and started calling theirs 3g.
One hundred millibits per second? That means it takes ten whole seconds to send a single bit! That’s outrageous.
When I sold Century Link that would have cost 59 dollars a month plus 30 dollars in hidden fees.
4G LTE was the point of no return. It was supposed to mean “it’s not 4G yet but we have an upgrade plan to get there”, but when they finally did, marketing found out that to the average person, going from 4G LTE to 4G sounded like a downgrade, so they rebranded it to 5G.
What kills me is it’s the same with CPUs. A 5nm chip is larger than 5nm.
I thought it meant the transistor size.